go figure
phrase/ɡoʊ ˈfɪɡ(j)ɚ/US
Etymology
Calque of Yiddish גיי װייס (gey veys).
Definitions
Expresses perplexity, puzzlement, or surprise (as if telling somebody to try to make…
Expresses perplexity, puzzlement, or surprise (as if telling somebody to try to make sense of the situation).
- The car wouldn't start yesterday no matter what I did, but today it works just fine. Go figure.
- It’s hard for some of us to look at a vicious flogger or a set of restraints used to hang someone upside-down and think of them as toys but kinky people do. Go figure.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for go figure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA